According to executive producer Carol Mendelsohn, her character will be a femme fatale like in "the glory days of film noir." And: "Her character is absolutely unlike what she seems. Prepare to be tantalized and tormented." [EW]

Nick Cannon is turning 30 in October, and his reps have sent out an email looking for corporate sponsors — $25,000 will get your company Tweeted about three times at his party. "Confirmed" guests at the bash include Mariah Carey, Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Will and Jada Smith, Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore, Kobe Bryant, Quincy Jones and Jamie Foxx. [Page Six]

The young lady who claims Ashton Kutcher made love to her on a couch allegedly has a "long history" of abusing drugs and alcohol. A source says: "She's a total party animal. She drinks every night, and openly talks about being an alcoholic." [Radar Online]

Robert Pattinson and Emma Watson will star together in a "steamy art film" called Dark Arc, and Kristen Stewart is not happy. According to a Britloid mag called Heat, Emma and KStew are "at war" over Rob and Kristen is "living in fear" that Emma is "after" her Twilight costar. And so on, ad nauseum. [MTV.co.uk]

Emma Watson had to evacuate her dorm room and someone sent TMZ a picture. [TMZ]

Circle the date November 22 on your calendar; that's when Kanye West's new album drops. [Rap-Up]

Quentin Tarantino has postponed his upcoming roast at the Friars Club after the death of his friend and film editor Sally Menke. Menke, 56, worked on all of Tarantino's movies, and received Oscar nominations for her work on Pulp Fiction and Inglorious Basterds. She was hiking with her dog in the extreme heat on Monday and failed to return home. [Daily Express, CNN]

Someone snapped fuzzy, pixelated cellphone pix of Brad Pitt and Chris Cornell at the American Girl store last weekend and naturally they are on TMZ. (Don't bother clicking, the photos are boring.) [TMZ]

Bristol Palin was in a bar in Alaska last week even though she's under 21 — but she was there for the nachos. [TMZ]

British TV host Myleene Klass says: "About six months ago, a newly-married Hollywood star asked me to sign some kind of sex contract with him. I met him a few times and when I went to interview him it was like something out of a film." Who could it be??? [Daily Mail]

"We are in [the development phase of] pre-production with HBO and BBC [Worldwide Productions] to do a miniseries. It's exciting. I probably shouldn't say too much about it except that I understand that there's a thousand hurdles before anything shows up in your TV listing. It's been an interesting and very educational process and it cleared the HBO hurdle a few months ago and now we're writing drafts back and forth. So it's very much alive and incubating at the moment." — Trent Reznor, on the "grim" sci-fi series that he has created. [LA Times]